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Freshservice vs Splunk Enterprise Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.3
Freshservice boosts efficiency with automation, cut hiring needs, improves SLA, but ROI quantification and user management vary by region.
Sentiment score
4.4
Splunk Enterprise boosts ROI by reducing downtime, enhancing security, improving productivity, and streamlining data management with automation.
Faster resolution means the average ticket resolution time decreased by roughly twenty-five to thirty percent since alerts are automatically converted into tickets and routed to the right team.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Automation has contributed significantly, resulting in reduced resource counts, which equates to savings in money and time.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
With using Freshservice, only two technicians are needed per one shift, but without Freshservice, for the same company size, we need about four technicians per shift, so it saved money and time.
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Key impact areas are generally time saved in investigations, higher analyst productivity, lowered costs of security incidents due to faster detection and response, and reduced manual reporting effort.
Managed Security Services Associate at Accenture
Splunk Enterprise Platform helped reduce the time required to investigate incidents by centralizing logs and providing powerful search capabilities.
Fine at PCS Solutions
Splunk Enterprise Platform improved our reliability, and the time to investment ratio has been excellent.
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Freshservice support is responsive and helpful but requires better communication and understanding of user needs for technical issues.
Sentiment score
6.9
Splunk's customer service is valued for technical support and resources, but response times can vary, impacting ratings.
Ultimately, we saw a 77% reduction in average resolution times with a return on investment realized within 6 months.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
However, they have improved over the period of two years.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Their documentation is also good, making setup easy without needing frequent support requests.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We contacted support and they were able to provide us with the solution which is currently working fine.
Splunk Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 11-50 employees
It is crucial for anyone looking to deploy Splunk Enterprise Platform to first certify for their courses, such as the Splunk Administrator and the Power User Administrator certifications, which address all troubleshooting queries.
SOC A2 at Innodata-ISOGEN
When we encounter issues, we utilize the Splunk community, which I believe showcases a big advantage of Splunk due to its strong community support.
Security Consultant at ITSEC Asia
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Freshservice efficiently scales with user growth and ticket volume, supporting departments despite potential customization and enterprise-level limitations.
Sentiment score
7.7
Splunk Enterprise Platform offers efficient scalability, supporting data growth and user expansion, though scaling may be costly or complex.
As our organization has grown and ticket volume related to AWS resources increased, Freshservice handled the extra load without any performance issues.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It offers global performance with multi-region data centers to ensure faster responses while adhering to strong security and compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC 2.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Freshservice is easy to use for scalability.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Splunk allows for scalability, as you can start with an all-in-one instance and, as your deployment grows, split it into distributed deployment, such as separating the search head and indexers.
Security Consultant at ITSEC Asia
It is highly stable and scalable for us.
Dev Ops And Observability Admin at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
In a day we get millions of hits for the APIs.
Software Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Freshservice offers stable performance with minor data import and integration challenges, excelling in daily operations and seamless updates.
Sentiment score
8.3
Splunk Enterprise Platform is stable and reliable for large data and security monitoring, with praised scalability and log analysis.
The service runs smoothly most of the time, and performance has been consistent even when ticket volumes and AWS alerts are high.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Freshservice is quite stable as they host it on AWS.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Freshservice provides a stable environment for our needs.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our L1 and L2 teams get real-time alerts and query the SPL effectively without delays that other SIEM solutions may impose.
Global Head Of Security Architecture Digital & Technology at Aramex
It is highly stable and scalable for us.
Dev Ops And Observability Admin at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It requires managing configuration files and processing operations manually, limiting its auto-scaling capabilities.
Consultant at Artifield
 

Room For Improvement

Freshservice needs improved customization, integration, asset management accuracy, reporting, support, AI features, and performance for larger networks.
Splunk Enterprise faces user concerns over cost, complexity, usability, performance, maintenance, and requires better integration and AI enhancements.
There's limited experience with the CMDB or asset management features.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Asset management can definitely be improved because it doesn't pick up every single device on the network or every single piece of information.
IT & Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Reporting is useful, but the customization is still restricted, and it would be great to build more detailed reports that combine multiple data sources, especially for cloud-related operations.
Security Engineer (SOC) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The deep learning capabilities need enhancing, especially on Splunk Cloud, where customers find it challenging to use deep learning tools without setting up backend computing resources.
Consultant at Artifield
I could also build some pre-indexed summaries so that Splunk Enterprise Platform can search much faster than raw logs.
security engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
From an architectural standpoint, data onboarding, normalization, performance, and scalability improvements would be beneficial, particularly in optimizing search speed and query execution to handle larger searches efficiently.
Global Head Of Security Architecture Digital & Technology at Aramex
 

Setup Cost

Freshservice offers competitive pricing with flexible plans, emphasizing cost-effectiveness and lower total ownership costs for enterprises.
Splunk Enterprise Platform's high costs concern users, especially smaller businesses, despite discounts and comprehensive features compared to alternatives.
Switching from previous ITSM tools has led to a 50% reduction in licensing costs.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
The solution offers flat licensing and appears to be cost-effective.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The price was very comfortable for our organization to proceed with the migration from Freshdesk to Freshservice.
Technical support manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The pricing model is based on ingesting data sizes, not user count, and includes a free tier for up to 500 MB of daily data.
Consultant at Artifield
We ingest terabytes of data, so I can say Splunk Enterprise Platform is somewhat costly.
Dev Ops And Observability Admin at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The platform's ability to consolidate siloed tools into a single pane of glass provides immense value justifying the premium cost if the architecture is tightly managed.
Managed Security Services Associate at Accenture
 

Valuable Features

Freshservice is valued for its user-friendly interface, automation, integration capabilities, and features enhancing IT team efficiency.
Splunk Enterprise offers customizable dashboards, real-time monitoring, scalable architecture, and advanced search, enhancing security, operations, and insights.
The most valuable features include ticket routing, automation in triage, data control, and flat licensing.
IT Technician at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Incident management is very helpful, and the system is straightforward, making it easy to use for our enterprise-level company.
IT manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Overall, Freshservice provides cutting-edge AI automation for agents and end-users, effortless no-code workflows and ITIL-aligned operations, robust asset, incident, change, problem, and major incident management backed by the live CMDB, unified service desk with self-service and multi-channel support, and strong analytics reporting features, making it a powerful tool for any IT function.
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Splunk Enterprise Platform also has its own Phantom as a SOAR, which is much more refined and gives more accurate results than any other AI integrated SIM tool.
SOC A2 at Innodata-ISOGEN
The anomaly detection is very good for live production data. Whenever an anomaly comes in an application, it automatically resolves and just gives the notification.
Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Splunk Enterprise Platform will create an incident and detect this as a credential compromise because we have a successful login from another location.
Cybersecurity Team Leader at EMAK For Computer Manufacturing (ECM)
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshservice
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (7th), Project Management Software (12th), Cloud Management (15th), IT Asset Management (6th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (8th), Configuration Management Databases (5th), AI IT Support (5th)
Splunk Enterprise Platform
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Freshservice is 1.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Platform is 2.7%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Enterprise Platform2.7%
Freshservice1.6%
Other95.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Raja Farrar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Delivery Manager at Symposiam
Automation and AI have transformed our service delivery and have made IT support faster and more efficient
I always keep up with Freshservice's roadmaps and new features. Freshservice has been very good at listening to feedback and adding those feature requests into their next iterations. I wish they would offer more granular data export options for utilizing in Power BI, along with predictive analytics for capacity planning and SLA breaches to enable more proactive support management and reduce firefighting. While the dashboards are effective, some users find custom reporting limited compared to ServiceNow or Jira. I would also appreciate deeper integrations, especially for niche apps requiring development coding work to enable advanced orchestration. Native integrations for DevOps pipelines such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with stronger API flexibility for complex workflows, would enhance functionality. Although the CMDB and asset management are solid, they do lack advanced dependency mapping compared to other enterprise tools. My wishlist includes automated impact analysis for changes and improved visualization of asset relationships, enabling quicker resolutions from an agent's perspective when alerts come in. I acknowledge that Device42 may enhance this, but it is an extra cost beyond what we already pay. While Freddy AI is excellent for triage and suggestions, some users desire more proactive automation, such as predictive ticket routing based on historical patterns and AI-driven capacity forecasting. Lastly, the pricing tiers might seem rigid for mid-sized teams, so a more granular add-on option for features such as Device42 or pay-per-use for orchestration workflows could be beneficial.
Koyena Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed Security Services Associate at Accenture
Centralized security monitoring has transformed our threat detection and incident response
While Splunk Enterprise Platform is widely regarded as a powerful SIEM and observability platform, users across enterprises commonly report recurring challenges including licensing and data ingestion costs. Splunk Enterprise Platform's licensing is often based on the volume of data ingested, and as our organization grows, costs can increase significantly, and our teams may need to carefully decide which logs to ingest, which can limit visibility. A suggested improvement would be more flexible licensing options, better built-in recommendations for optimizing data ingestion, and smarter data compression or tiered pricing. There is also a steep learning curve where beginners can find SPL difficult. A suggested improvement would be more AI-assisted SPL generation, interactive tutorials, and guided dashboard creation with additional pre-built templates for common SOC use cases. These are the main areas for improvement that I can see: licensing flexibility, reducing the learning curve for new users, simplifying development, improving performance for very large datasets, and providing more AI-assisted features to reduce manual effort. In terms of adding more improvements, there are frequently discussed areas including easier third-party integrations. While Splunk Enterprise Platform supports many integrations, onboarding new security tools sometimes requires custom configurations or add-ons. A suggested improvement would be more plug-and-play integrations, faster support for new vendors, and then simplified administration. Administrators often manage indexes, forwarders, user roles, and cluster health, so a suggested improvement would be easier administration dashboards and automated health checks. These are suggestions that acknowledge Splunk Enterprise Platform's strengths while highlighting areas where many enterprise users see opportunities for further improvement. The primary areas for improvement that I see are licensing flexibility, simplifying administration, expanding plug-and-play integrations, and adding more AI-driven assistance for searches and investigations. These improvements would significantly simplify our tasks and help us solve more incidents in a lesser amount of time, making it flexible even for beginners.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business34
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise43
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Freshservice?
I cannot comment much on the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Freshservice as it was already preset up in my company.
What needs improvement with Freshservice?
I believe Freshservice can be improved by offering more advanced features and customizability. In terms of improvements, I suggest enhancing performance for larger networks and addressing workflow ...
What is your primary use case for Freshservice?
In Freshservice, I typically use it for day-to-day tasks. A quick, specific example of how I use Freshservice in my daily work includes getting some incidents, working on service requests, and hand...
What needs improvement with Splunk Enterprise Platform?
With respect to the use cases, we were able to create many use cases as well as fine-tune them, so thirty percent of the alerts were fine-tuned, and we have improved our detection logic and also th...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Enterprise Platform?
Splunk Enterprise Platform serves as our SIEM tool where we receive alerts and we primarily depend on it. As a centralized logging and monitoring system, we use Splunk based upon different data typ...
What advice do you have for others considering Splunk Enterprise Platform?
With respect to the use cases, we were able to create many use cases as well as fine-tune them, so thirty percent of the alerts were fine-tuned, and we have improved our detection logic and also th...
 

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Sample Customers

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Western Carriers, Judson University, Golf Canada, Travix, Proxama, Paymentez, Ready Auto Transport
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